12-10-2023, 06:35 PM
I have just learned that Barbara Levick, ancient historian and emerita fellow of St Hilda's College Oxford, passed away on 6 December, aged 92. (Curiously, only this morning, I pulled her 2002 sourcebook The High Tide of Empire down from my bookshelf, where it had sat unread ever since I purchased it.)
Although Dr Levick was a major figure in the Anatolian epigraphic scene (notably Pisidian Antioch), she will no doubt be best known to RAT members via her biographies of Augustus (2010), Tiberius (1976, updated 1999), Claudius (1990), Vespasian (1999), Julia Domna (2007), and the two Faustinas, mother and daughter (2014), and perhaps from her Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook (1985, updated 2000). She continued working well into her eighties, publishing a biography of Catilina in 2015.
A 2002 conference in her honour, entitled Vita vigilia est (a quote from Pliny the Elder, meaning "to be alive is to be alert"), was published in 2007.
Her portrait (with Claudius book), painted by C.J. Cursham, can be viewed here: Portrait of Barbara Levick .
Although Dr Levick was a major figure in the Anatolian epigraphic scene (notably Pisidian Antioch), she will no doubt be best known to RAT members via her biographies of Augustus (2010), Tiberius (1976, updated 1999), Claudius (1990), Vespasian (1999), Julia Domna (2007), and the two Faustinas, mother and daughter (2014), and perhaps from her Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook (1985, updated 2000). She continued working well into her eighties, publishing a biography of Catilina in 2015.
A 2002 conference in her honour, entitled Vita vigilia est (a quote from Pliny the Elder, meaning "to be alive is to be alert"), was published in 2007.
Her portrait (with Claudius book), painted by C.J. Cursham, can be viewed here: Portrait of Barbara Levick .
